September 28, 2012 - 12:07pm
No black bars to be found here, my friends. Raise your favorite scandalous softcover to the sky; kick off Banned Books Week at Carmichael’s Bookstore this Sunday, September 30th, at 4pm as lawyer and media expert Jeremy Rogers discusses censorship.
It is perhaps my greatest ambition in life to write a banned book. A work of staggering proportions that shakes the constitutions of the delicate, disturbs the comfortable. A book with mettle, with the balls to rattle the bones of the modern-minded, the liberated, the advanced - to...
September 25, 2012 - 11:00am
Associate history professor, Lien-Hang Nguyen brings her new book ‘Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam’ to the University of Louisville this coming Thursday, September 27th at 6:30pm.
It is a rather unfortunate fact of living as human: we are not the calm, docile animals of peace that we would always like to be. As far as tempers go, we as a race of Earthling are short-fused and full of gun powder – often as individuals and especially in large numbers. It...
September 24, 2012 - 11:19am
Because you’re really never too old for a good picture book. Join homeowners and art collectors Leonard and Adele Leight, as well as photographer Ted Wathen and author Peter Morrin for a special signing of their new book ‘The Leight House’ at Carmichael’s Bookstore Friday, September 28th at 7pm.
A wall is an interesting concept. It provides function, yes, obviously, but outside of its protective role as a barrier to the dangers of the world, it serves the high purpose of acting canvas. We often bare our person in our homes, nailing sentiment and soul into plaster and drywall...
September 21, 2012 - 11:07am
Because there are other royals worth watching besides the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Brush up on your Russian history and uncover the captivating story of Catherine the Great as Robert Massie presents ‘Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman’ at the Louisville Free Public Library’s Main branch next Thursday, September 27th, at 7pm.
Even in this modern age, the allure of royalty still manages to hold some mystique. While much of our fawning and fandom now falls to the celebrities of stage and screen (and their incredibly sordid lives), the fascination with the ancient human institution of monarchy continues to find favor...
September 18, 2012 - 1:12pm
Louisville is never lacking in the poetry department. Kick off the first official day of Autumn with some poetic license at A Reader’s Corner Bookstore this Saturday, September 22nd, at 5:30pm.
I’m tired. I have homework. I have deadlines. My personal life is complicated. Blarg. Are the bells going off in your head? Did I just reach through the ether and make a small, little bubble of human connection with you? The experience of life doesn’t...
